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The Complete Dr. Thorndyke - Volume 2: Short Stories (Part I): John Thorndyke's Cases Singing Bone Great Portrait Mystery and Apocryphal Material
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Volume II contains roughly the first half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over six books. This volume contains the fifteen short stories from the first three,
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Some of the stories in this book are especially famous, as they were the first use of the “inverted” mystery, in which the criminal (and how he did it) are identified from the first, and the second half of the narrative shows how Thorndyke solves it, in spite of the criminal’s every effort. (The “inverted” crime story was later used to great success by Columbo, as well as other detectives.)
In addition to these fifteen stories, this book also contains a couple of Apocrypal Thorndyke tales:
Join us as these handsome new editions bring back one of the truly great detectives who has been neglected for far too long.
“Freeman was eminently successful in creating, in Thorndyke, a noble, highly convincing and thoroughly consistent character who was precisely fitted to his role.”
– Norman Donaldson, Thorndyke Scholar
(1971)